SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela – The local health department revealed that eight pupils from a public elementary school have been infected with the A (H1N1) virus prompting them to raise the alarm signal over the expected increase of cases, with the onset of the rainy season.
The positive test results of the eight pupils were relayed to the city health office by the Regional Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) which conducted laboratory analysis on the throat swab samples taken from the pupils who complained of having contracted flu-like symptoms.
With the expected spread of the disease to other pupils in the still undisclosed school, the city government facilitated the distribution of prophylaxis medicines to those who had close contact with the eight affected pupils in addition to undergoing close medical supervision over a 10-day confinement period.
Last July 21, twenty one pupils from the same school were rushed to the Southern Isabela General Hospital after they complained of suffering from flu. Health authorities subjected them to random swab tests to determine whether or not they have contracted the A (H1N1) virus.
Isabela is one of the provinces in the country which registered a significant growth in the number of A (H1N1) cases over the past several months, supposedly due to unpredictable weather conditions triggered by climate change. – Dexter A. See
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